Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

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53.30.2. A regulation made under subparagraph b of subparagraph 6 of the first paragraph of section 53.30 that requires, as a measure, certain persons to develop, implement and contribute financially to a deposit system may, in particular,
(1)  determine the products concerned by the system;
(2)  prescribe the time limits and the terms and conditions applicable to the entering into of contracts, if applicable, between the persons, the municipalities, the groups of municipalities and any Aboriginal community, represented by its band council, determined in the regulation and the minimum content of such contracts;
(3)  determine the terms and conditions applicable to the return, transportation, sorting and conditioning of returnable products, including their storage, to recover and reclaim such products;
(4)  determine, in addition to the persons who are required to develop, implement and contribute financially to the system, the other persons, municipalities, groups of municipalities and Aboriginal communities, represented by their band councils, that are concerned by the system;
(5)  determine the obligations, rights and responsibilities of the persons, municipalities, groups of municipalities and Aboriginal communities, represented by their band councils, that are concerned by the system;
(6)  determine, in particular with respect to the obligations referred to in paragraph 5, the obligations that certain persons concerned by the system must meet as regards their participation in the organization of the return of returnable products;
(7)  fix a deposit payable on the purchase of any of the products referred to in paragraph 1 that, upon return, is refundable in whole or, as determined under paragraph 8, in part only, or prescribe the parameters to be used by a body designated under a regulation made under section 53.30.3 to fix such a deposit, which is not payable until it has been approved by the Minister;
(8)  determine the non-refundable proportion of the deposit paid under paragraph 7 that constitutes the charge payable for the management, promotion and development of reclamation;
(9)  determine the persons who are required to collect and refund, in the cases and on the conditions it prescribes, the deposit fixed under paragraph 7;
(10)  fix the indemnity payable for management costs, or the parameters to be used to fix it by a body designated under a regulation made under section 53.30.3, in particular for the handling and storage of products referred to in paragraph 1 following their return, and determine the persons who are entitled to receive such an indemnity, the persons who are required to pay such an indemnity and the terms and conditions applicable to the payment of such an indemnity; and
(11)  prescribe a mechanism for resolving disputes that may arise following the entering into or performance of contracts referred to in paragraph 2 or the obligation to prescribe such a mechanism in such contracts.
2021, c. 5, s. 4.